From New York, this is Democracy Now.

In my mind, when people say, why didn't you, why didn't you leave, why didn't you tell people,

well, this is why?

Because I felt that my coming out and saying it would have hurt, would have hurt the movement.

A major investigation by the New York Times has revealed the late civil rights icon and farm worker organizer, Cesar Chavez,

repeatedly sexually assaulted and raped women and girls as young as 12 and groom them from even younger.

The Latina civil rights pioneer, Dolores Huerta, has revealed Chavez raped her in the 1960s.

Together, the two co-founded the United Farm Workers will air excerpts of Dolores' interview. She was interviewed by Latina USA host Maria Inhosa, and

will speak to Maria about that conversation. Then to Lebanon.

The night of the strike, the Israelis called and said we had to leave the house.

So we talked to the army and they said there was no other way. We had to leave.

We left and 15 minutes later, the army called us and said the house was gone.

We arrived in Beirut at 11.30 p.m. and we didn't find anyone.

In Lebanon, the death toll from Israeli strikes has topped 1,000.

There's more than a million people are displaced amid spheres of an all-out invasion of the south of Lebanon.

We'll go to Beirut for the latest.

Then the world is on fire. Gas prices are rising.

Republicans are trying to make it harder to vote. We'll look at President Trump's push for

the SAVE Act, which could disenfranchise millions of voters. All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warrant Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

The Pentagon's launched an offensive aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz, with low-flying

jets and helicopter gunships patrolling the waterway for Iranian ships and one-way attack

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